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djuarezg
djuarezg

Reputation: 2541

How to change email address via gitlab-rails (avoid email reconfirmation)

While I am waiting for a merge request to be introduced to Gitlab to avoid this problem I need a workaround to edit an user's email address via the gitlab-rails console.

Using this:

user = User.find_by(name: 'test')
user.email = '[email protected]'
user.save

allows to edit the user but I am asked to confirm the new email before it is applied. Any idea?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4755

Answers (3)

권기윤
권기윤

Reputation: 1

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html#user-modification

The email field is the user’s primary email address. You can only change this field to an already-added secondary email address for that user. To add more email addresses to the same user, use the add email function.

i face same problem.. so i research document and find this. we cannot change primary email

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323753

You might have another option with GitLab 15.5 (October 2022)

Modify user’s commit email through the Users API

Previously, a user’s commit email could be modified only in the UI.

Now, administrators can use the Users API to modify the commit email and perform this as a bulk action.

Thank you Neil Drumm for your contribution!

See Documentation and Issue.

Context:

In the Drupal community we provision contributor user accounts in our GitLab instance (git.drupalcode.org) automatically from their Drupal.org user accounts.

In the past, we used Drupal.org to manage multiple email accounts per user, and to provide a no-reply 'private' commit email.

We would like to migrate multiple email account handling to GitLab, but at the same time we want to be able to bulk set the public commit_email of users to the GitLab provided no-reply address to preserve privacy.

Upvotes: 0

djuarezg
djuarezg

Reputation: 2541

I found it afterwards, so in case someone has the same problem:

gitlab-rails runner '
                      user = User.find_by(name: 'test')
                      user.email = '[email protected]'
                      user.skip_reconfirmation!
                      user.save
                    '

EDIT: This used to work in old version, but is no longer required as I contributed to add a skip confirmation when using the Users API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html#add-email-for-user

Upvotes: 6

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